Controversy has erupted over next Tuesday's European Parliament resolution "on eliminating gender stereotypes in the EU", meant to mark international women's day, after libertarian Swedish MEPs from the Pirate Party spotted the call for a ban in the small print.

While not legally binding, the vote could be the first step towards European legislation as the EU's assembly increasingly flexes its political muscle within Europe's institutions.

...next Tuesday's European Parliament resolution "on eliminating gender stereotypes in the EU", meant to mark international women's day, after libertarian Swedish MEPs from the Pirate Party spotted the call for a ban in the small print.

I'm 100 percent in favor of a ban on *bad* European porn, the east bloc stuff is dreadful. Wait, what?

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posted on 03/09/2013 5:40:49 AM PST
by SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)

Importantly, this is just *part* of their crackdown on free expression. Three other things they want are even more horrifying:

1) To outlaw criticism or humor directed against politicians, “protected classes”, “protected religions” (not including Christianity or Judaism, or any other religion than Islam).

2) To require all reporters and journalists to be licensed by the EU, and their nation, which can be revoked if they run afoul of EU or national bureaucrats, who could do so by whim.

3) To adopt a libel law similar to Britain’s insane libel statute (actually been reformed in Britain a bit), which would define libel as “having offended” a person, even if what was written was factual.

As one of the handful of people in this country who have ever had as an occupational responsibility that of determining if printed matter was pornographic ~ let me say this about that ~ if you want to mail the stuff the recipient can decide it's pornographic and ask that they be added to the list off folks who don't want it. The list costs something to create, and once a year the USPS divides the cost up among the porn mailers and charges them a proportionate amount.

Sometimes a mailer will make a mistake and send something to someone on the list ~ that's a different story ~ and there USPS will assign a classification specialist to examine the material to see if it's pornographic as understood in the law.

When that system was first set up vast amounts of porn, mostly as xerox copies, were sent to USPS for evaluation.

There are some judges who like all of it; others only like some of it; and other judges who take the position that people who do not want the stuff should not have it forced on them by the government (hence the postal references throughout these decisions) ~ BUT, and it's a really big one you should all be concerned with, SOME USSC judges think you should have no right to even protest having porn tossed at you against your will.

That is why we need to be careful here... Yes porn is bad and disgusting, but if we the people give the Government power to control content on the Internet, the Government will not stop at porn.. Plain and simple..

This is going to be a collision between the Law of unintended consequences and rule 34 (if it exists, there is pornography involving it). With the right frame of mind, one can see anything as pornographic, including such things as plumbing and electronics, both of which feature male and female connectors

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posted on 03/09/2013 6:38:52 AM PST
by jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)

Are the trying to eliminate gender stereotypes in porn? Will all porn have to be sold in opaque envelopes and you won’t known the sex, age or body type until you’ve bought and opened it. Stinks to be you, you got another issue of Queer Old Chubbies. And don’t even try to discrimitorially throw it out because the EU trash police will be checking your recycling bin,

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posted on 03/09/2013 7:12:32 AM PST
by KarlInOhio
(Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)

I guess I’ll side with the EU on this. My basic point is that all the freedoms in the world are WORTHLESS if it leads to the destruction of the state - for what replaces it will be much, much, worse than not being able to buy Penthouse.

Europeans will be discovering this in under a decade - starting in Belgium.

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posted on 03/09/2013 9:15:11 AM PST
by BobL
(Look up "CSCOPE" if you want to see something really scary)

For those here who seem perplexed as to how to define porn, ask any teenage boy or man who visits porn sites what he is going there to see. Duh! He’s going there to watch people have sex. Porn = photos/video of people actually having sex. It’s simple enough. I knew what it was when I was a teenage girl. To see that adults, conservative adults at that, don’t know what porn is is disheartening.

That said, will the EU ban porn? Nope. It won’t happen. Porn is crucial to the breakdown of the family. The breakdown of the family is an absolute necessity for more government expansion...which the EU wants. When the family is broken down, the father is replaced by the government.

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